Example sentences for: rightful

How can you use “rightful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pop had a way of putting what I thought of as catastrophes into their rightful context.

  • With astonishing sums of money sloshing around the economy and Japanese products considered world-beaters everywhere, it seemed to the Japanese that the nation had finally achieved its rightful place in the world.

  • Scott claims that "Groening's willing, if somewhat ironic, embrace of the marketing bonanza his creation has unleashed may have cost him his rightful spot in the the Comics Journal 's highbrow/subculture pantheon."

  • The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.

  • Italy had to wait until after World War II to regain its rightful status as a primary fashion source.


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